@girlcyclone Asked: It's Not As Bad As It Looks.

film ask meme : NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021) directed by GUILLERMO DEL TORO. pt. 2/2.

a selection of lines from the 2021 film nightmare alley. modified slightly for rp purposes.

do not trust anyone involved.

i want to tell you about absolute loneliness.

can you be more specific?

i believe you know of whom i am speaking now. do you not?

i’m sorry, i guess i was tired.

concentrate. do any other details come to you?

there are no tricks involved. no deception whatsoever.

you claim to carry it to defend yourself, but i think you do it because you like it. i think you do it because it makes you feel powerful. well, you are not powerful. not powerful enough.

sometimes you have dark thoughts about yourself. don’t you?

you saw how desperate he was. what did you want me to say to him?

i was thinking you and i could make a dent in this town.

see? you got a smoother line, but you run a racket. same as me.

think out things most people want, and hit them right where they live: health. wealth. love.

find out what they’re afraid of and sell it back to them.

you talked about my mother. why?

you’re not as hard to read as you think.

is that why you are here? to look at me?

so, you think you have something big enough, or interesting enough, for me?

i’ll give you something. in exchange for the truth.

i’m a hustler. and i know that. i’m on the make but i know it. get it?

never. that word again. we’re going to work on that.

he’s working on a disappearing act right now.

it’s the same grift, just different threads.

not interested. i got what i wanted.

they’ll be talking about it the rest of his life. and i think every time they tell it it’ll get better and better, bigger and bigger.

i know you well. i know you’re no good, and i know that because neither am i.

you need a break. whatever you want to do, we’ll do.

i don’t think you have a problem. i think he’s very desperate.

the thing you need to know is, if you displease the right people, the world closes in on you, very, very fast.

i am alone. lost. i feel lost.

i want to see her. i have to see her again, whatever it takes.

if you were smart, that should scare you.

she says you lied to her. you gave a false name and left her body behind.

i have loved you the best i can, as much as i can, and i know now that it will never be enough.

whatever is missing in you, it sure is not me.

i’m scared, too. i’ve been scared everyday of my life. sometimes i’m so scared i can’t even breathe.

i place no blame on you. i want you to know that.

you asked me to purge my soul of sin?

i’ve done things i’ve never told anyone about.

you dirty motherfucker! i’m going to destroy you!

what did you do!? why did you do this!?

you’re a small, small man. you don’t fool people. they fool themselves.

i always hated you.

it’s not much, but it’s a job, right? of course, it’s only temporary.

so what do you say? think you can handle it?

i was born for it.

Ask my muse personal questions!

Time to pry into their life.

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i'm holding my world together with a bootstring .

i would do it again if i could hold you for a minute .

my life was a storm since i was born , how could i fear any hurricane ?

heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i .

i miss when we did not need much .

we didn't get it right , but we did our best .

when people say that something is forever , either way it ends .

i have never known a silence like the one fallen here .

there's money to be made , whatever is still to come .

i don't want to be anything like this at all .

there are some things that nobody teaches you .

we can celebrate the good that we've done .

if there was anyone to get through this life with their heart in tact , they didn't do it right .

all i needed was someone .

you only feel it when it's lost .

the awful things we do to make our heads feel quiet .

you may never know your fortune .

so far from home to have a stranger call you 'darling' .

i'm a butchered tongue still singing here above the ground .

if i was a riptide , i wouldn't take you out .

knowing that everything ends won't change our plan .

i feel lighter than i have in so much time .

i don't know how the feeling ended .

i know we want this to go easy by being somebody's fault .

how could i fall when i am lifted by every word you say to me ?

if i said that this was drowning , you'd tell me i'm walking on water .

who wants to live forever , babe ?

old and young are welcome to the meal .

how can something be so much heavier but so much less than what it seems ?

we had nowhere to go and every desire to go there .

if i fall , i only pray , don't fall away from me .

all our weight is just a burden offered to us by the world .

getting through still has a cost .

so much of our life is just carving through the dark .

after this i'm never gonna be the same .

some part of me must have died the first time you called me 'baby' .

are there limits to emptiness ?

i wish i was the sunlight , just sitting on the mississippi .

if you need to , darling , lean your weight onto me .

you can't buy this fineness .

some part of me must have come alive the first time you called me 'baby' .

the future's so bright it's burning .

i would do anything just to run away .

i heard once , it's the comforts that make us feel numb .

darkness always finds you , either way .

i know being reckless and young isn't how the damage gets done .

i haven't felt it since then .

i do not have wings , love , and i never will .

one time we would want for nothing , we knew what our love was worth .

i think i'll take my whiskey neat .

i'd still be surprised i could find you , in any life .

i don't need to know where we begin and end .

my name always hits my ears as such an awful sound .

i'm taking no orders , i'm gonna be nobody's soldier .

living the dream , benzos and gasoline .

i wish i could go along , don't get me wrong .

do you think i'd give up ?

i'm infinitely suffering , but fighting it off like all creation .

if you're drunk on life , babe , that's great .

what good would it be on the far side of things ?

i aim low , i aim true and to the ground is where i go .

i wouldn't sell the world , i would hold on for all its worth .

choose between being a butcher and a pauper .

i feel as useful as dirt .

it's the sound of it that brings me here .

when was the last time ?

i want to fade away with you .

whatever keeps you around , it keeps you around .

funny how true colors shine in darkness and secrecy .

when i was younger , i used to guess if there were limits to emptiness .

you know i'm good on my own .

one bright morning changes all things .

i'm sick to my skin , watching the news again .

how could you think i'd scare so easily ?

now that it's done , there's not one thing i would change .

would all things god allows remain above ground ?

i'd walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you .

you treat your mouth like it's heaven's gate .

could this be how every day begins ?

i can scarce believe what i'm believing in .

whatever you choose , you lose in the long run .

your reflection can't offer a word to the bliss of not knowing yourself .

the goal i was aiming for was the wrong one .

you're too sweet for me .

your heart , love , has such darkness .

let the sun only shine on me through a falling sky .

i don't wanna choose between being a salesman and a soldier .

how do you sleep so well ?

i wouldn't sell the world for all the gold and sterling .

the street is for the laughter of young women and men .

you can keep a dream in your mind only to find out it's the hope that's killing you .

each time i'm shocked by the light .

july is still coming , just knowing that gets me through .

maybe i have yet to venture out and see the places i dream about .

no closer could i be to god .

what you live in , it finds a way to live in you .

i want to be so far away from sight and mind .

you know the distance made no difference to me .

i thought you were like an angel to me .

i'd move so fast that i'd outpace the dawn .

all my love and terror balanced there between those two eyes .

i'm still glad i met you .

that moment i knew , i had no choice but to love you .

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Ok but before I jump into my lil asks and replies, the joy this dash and my jinx blog dash brings me!!! UNREAL, you guys are all so sweet and cute! I love that we are always supporting each other even as duplicates and also, the interwoven connections everyone has with each others muse is so fun! I spend just as much time if not more reading other peoples threads and it brings me so much joy! You are all so talented and I love this community a lot! You are all amazing and I am so happy to be here and apart of this rpc

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